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I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don't even use chrome, i've switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

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[โ€“] ______@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you're confusing virus and malware. Windows is malware by definition. I think according to gnu philosophy any proprietary software is malware because features are designed to make profits and not to service the end user.

[โ€“] nutsack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

thanks again Richard